Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
जेवीं नवज्वरें तापलें शरीर । लागे तया क्षीर विषातुल्य ॥1॥
तेवीं परमार्थ जीहीं दुराविला । तयालागीं झाला सन्निपात ॥ध्रु.॥
कामिनी जयाच्या जाहाली नेत्रासी । देखी तो चंद्रासी पीतवर्ण ॥2॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Just as a body burning with fever finds even milk to taste like poison, so too one who has turned away from spiritual truth suffers a delirium of the soul. The one in whose eyes lust has taken hold sees even the moon as yellow and distorted.
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